ngs and different parts of the body. The sixth was still
lingering, badly diseased, when the experiment was brought to a
close. Fresh air and exercise enabled the first six to overcome
the disease germs. Confinement gave full play to the disease in
the others.

"Now, you house lovers, sleepers in close bedrooms, people
afraid of cold air, you are the rabbits in the hutches. Beware,
lest the verdict be in your case, 'Died of tubercles in the
lungs.' If you are not able to leave your home, live with open
windows, day and night, summer and winter.

"Exercise systematically, especially those exercises,
accompanied by deep breathing, that open and strengthen the
lungs--exercises without fatigue.

"If you are hoping that some wonderful, mysterious drug has been
or will be discovered, a drug that will cure consumption without
your help, you are hoping against hope. Improved nutrition is
your salvation, and that must come through exercise, diet and
fresh air."

Dr. J. H. Kellogg, in his _Home Hand-Book of Hygiene and Medicine_,
recommends a salt sponge bath upon retiring, to arrest night sweats, or
sponging with hot water. He adds:--

"It is important that patients should know that the sweats are
greatly aggravated by opium in any form, and hence are increased
by cough mixtures of any sort which contain this drug. Very
simple remedies are often effective to relieve the most
distressing cough, such as gargling of water in the throat,
holding bits of ice in the mouth, taking occasional sips of
strong lemonade, and similar remedies. As a general rule,
patients run down and the disease progresses much more rapidly,
after beginning the use of opium in any form. Sometimes it is
best that the cough should be encouraged instead of being
repressed. When the patient expectorates very freely, the cough
is a necessary means of relieving the chest of matters which
would seriously interfere with the functions of the lungs if
retained, by filling up the bronchial tubes and air-cells. The
kind of cough needing relief is an irritable, ineffective cough,
unaccompanied by any considerable degree of expectoration. Loaf
sugar, honey or a mixture of honey and lemon juice, and other
simple, familiar remedies are often effective in relieving such
a cough. * * * * *

"It is perhaps needless to add